This is a newer, handy-size edition of the Book of Blessings, containing only the blessings that are celebrated outside of Mass. In contains the New American Bible translation for all Scripture Readings. Each blessing is carefully arranged for the celebrant. Features include black bonded leather cover and ribbon-marker.

Shorter Christian Prayer contains Morning and Evening Prayer for the Four Week Psalter and selected texts for the Seasons and Major Feasts of the year.  It is Ideal for Parish use.

This new complete Missal contains all the Mass Texts for every Sunday and Holyday in a continuous and easy-to-use arrangement. All readings for Liturgical Years A B C are given in the "New American Bible" version.

This beautifully illustrated  St. Joseph Children's Missal is a newly released edition of the 1959 missal for the Tridentine (Pre-Vatican II) Rite.  In addition to the Mass, it has: Gospel Stories for Sundays and Feast Days Vestments and Objects for Mass Vestment Colors Daily Prayers Prayers for Confession Prayers for Holy Communion Stations of the Cross The Holy Rosary

When classics professor Reed Stubblefield is disabled in a school shooting, he retreats to a rural Illinois cabin to recover and write a book on Aristotle. Oddly, in the chill of early March, the campgrounds and motels of tiny River Falls are filled with the ill and infirm -- all seeking the healing touch of the town's new parish priest, reputed to be a stigmatic, who bears on his hands and …

The uninterrupted life is not worth living Got questions about Catholic family life? You’ve come to the right place! As a lifelong Catholic, devoted wife, diligent homeschooler, and mother of seven, Susie Lloyd knows lots of people who just might have the answers for you. Susie herself is too busy to give advice: busy giving home haircuts and finding missing socks; busy teaching her teen …

Every mother prays, even if only, "Lord, give me patience!" Just as children need our love at every age, so too they always need our prayers. Challenged by her children's school principal asking, "If not us, who; if not here, where; if not now, when," Julie Cragon began praying specifically for each of her children. Just as children need our love at every age, so too they …

"Grief is an experience common to all humanity. It transcends culture and time. It is 'catholic' - that is, 'universal.' Grief is also Catholic. It is a well-charted experience in the Scriptures, in the lives of the saints, as well as in our common life in the Body of Christ ... Our task is to live this universal, or catholic, pattern of grief as Catholics." In this handbook for those who …

Msgrs. Charles Callan and John McHugh 1925 Edition Exact Reprint This 754 page complete Catholic prayer book is a compendium of all of the ancient and traditional prayers of the Catholic Faith.  For generations it was one of the most popular prayer books in use by Catholic Americans.  Among other things it contains: The Ordinary of the Mass in English and Latin, the Epistles and …

Edited by John Slanchuk, C. Ss. R. On June 27, 2001, Pope John Paul II beatified 27 martyrs for the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Among them were four Redemptorists - Mykolay (Nicholas) Charnetsky, (184-1959), Vasyl (Basil) Vsevolod Velychkovsky, (1903-1941), Ivan Ziatyk, (1899-1952), and Zynoviy (Zenon) Kovalyk, (1903-1941). This book is a celebration of their stories. Bishop Nicholas …

"With compassion and hope, spiritual writer Sr. Anne Field helps us face the inevitable losses we experience through aging, illness, and other causes of suffering. She gently urges readers to choose freely to replace gloomy attitudes of self-pity with God’s perspectives on pain and disabilities. God, she says, does not want to burden us with more losses but wants to strengthen us to bear our …

".The devil knows that, according to the promise Jesus Christ, they who receive Holy Communion worthily will not fall into his power but will obtain eternal life, and on this account he either tempts men to disbelieve the mystery, or he suggests every sort of pretext to keep them from receiving it. But he himself believes it and trembles. Would to God that all men had so strong a …

An elegant and ornate design created using polished gold tone. The large fleur de lys is engraved and set with a cross. The four points contain various emblems of ancient crests. Made in the U.S.A.! Measures: 5 1/2"L x 3/4"W Metal Color: Gold Tone Finish: Polished

Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fatima . Dead at only 10, Blessed Jacinta, after the Fatima apparitions, had dedicated her life to perpetual reparation for the conversion of sinners and thus gained great sanctity. Here is her remarkable story!

Father Lovasik, S.V.D.

About this book: Numerous laypersons have experienced that the guidelines of Saint Benedict's Rule offer inspiring and realistic ways toward a blessed life, aiming at the growth and flourishing of persons and communities in which they live and work. As in his previous and successful book, The Rule of Benedict for Beginners, Wil Derkse in this sequel is searching for those basic attitudes and …

Blessed Marie Celine of the Presentation . This book is a new release and will be ready December 1st! Compiled by the Poor Clares of Rockford, Illinois. Beatification Sept., 2007. This 19-year-old girl, Germaine Castang, suffered much in a desperately poor family, with illness, deaths and other sorrows---but her life was crowned by entry into religious life. Allowed to make her profession on …

"It's almost upon us!" yelled a frantic voice aboard the Saint Joseph, as the iceberg neared the ship. The huge mountain of gray-green ice looked like a floating castle-which would shatter the poor little wooden ship in a moment or two. Just then the helmsman, confused and panic-stricken, turned his wheel in the wrong direction, bringing the iceberg even nearer! "It's the end of …

Ann Ball This is the inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro, who was executed in Mexico in 1927 for the "crime" of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit spent most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as he ministered to the underground Church during the Mexican Revolution. Fr. Pro's quick wit and keen sense of humor were put to good use as he …

This attractive booklet celebrates the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Blessed Mother Teresa has inspiring prayers and meditations of this remarkable woman, on pages facing full color photographs of her. It concludes with a two-page biography highlighting the most important dates in her life.